In the year 2027, the WORLD has regrouped from past post-apocalyptic wastelands into a few civilized areas. The economic crisis led to the recycling of aging 20th-century mechanical and technological equipment. Society has also become reacquainted with intimacy, as well as both increasingly hyperconsiderate and free. ... freedom has produced cooperative AIs (more properly, GLYPHs) as substitutes for Control. The declining instances of actual enslavement among men and women is liberating, with one NETWORK having lawyers draft up their own MASS resignations detailing the new Anarcho-Sovereign State of Affairs.

.......and for 'balance' and the 'record', some further sub-contextual ramblings.